2018 Was A Terrible Year For The Press
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"2018 Was A Terrible Year For The Press," Dec. 25, 2018, Huff Post. Attacked on the campaign trail, slammed on social media, chastised from the Oval Office: The press has been subject to near-constant efforts to label the fourth estate as an enemy of the people. And while faith in the media is growing, a majority of Americans still have a bone-deep distrust of the press.
Take a look at some of the struggles journalists faced on a daily basis throughout the U.S., where a free press is a constitutional right, and across the globe, where those freedoms are hard to even imagine.
- JAMAL KHASHOGGI, a Saudi journalist and columnist for The Washington Post, was murdered shortly after he entered the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul in October. His death has been linked to the country’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, who the CIA says directly ordered the killing. A bipartisan group of senators briefed on Khashoggi’s disappearance earlier this month by CIA Director Gina Haspel said they believed the crown prince was complicit “to the highest possible level.”
But President Donald Trump has maintained his steadfast support for the crown prince throughout the ordeal, saying last month that America’s “relationship is with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.”
The Senate issued a sharp rebuke to the president earlier in December, unanimously passing a measure to hold the crown prince responsible for the killing.
- CAPITAL GAZETTE. A man with a long-standing vendetta against the Annapolis, Maryland, Capital Gazette charged into the outlet’s newsroom in June and opened fire. He is accused of killing five people in one of the deadliest attacks involving journalists in decades.
The suspect, 38-year-old Jarrod Ramos, had sued the newspaper in 2013 for alleged defamation, a case he eventually lost. But he continued to attack the outlet on social media to the point that an editor working there at the time told HuffPost the company kept a picture of the man behind the front desk.
Ramos has been indicted on 23 counts of murder, attempted murder, assault and weapons offenses.
- CNN. A man mailed pipe bombs to the CNN offices. . .Read More,
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/2018-bad-year-journalists_us_5c1d8414e4b05c88b6f8bf45
